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Volunteer in Toscana, Italy. Help with house and with hot air balloons.
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Pays: Italy

Description

hi there
i am revising the need this coming spring and summer as i will be busy elsewhere .. however i am in need of someone who would like to come with me to italy around the 25th April returning around the 16th May .. i will be driving there and ballooning whilst there .. i need someone who can drive pref over 25 for the insurance ! you will get the chance to fly whilst there and follow the balloon when i am flying .. if this sound like a good holiday then contact me .. many thanks martin

Région

toscana umbria border

Type de travail

Other

Travail

I am an English man living here in Italy with an old tobaccco drying kiln that i are renovating and converting to a house, i expect to be working on the project for the next 3-4 years. i also fly hotair balloons from our garden and sometimes need help with this. i am looking for someone or a couple to helpwith the day to day work here the garden needs tending and some help with small building works !!!!! we can also go flying in the balloon !!

Langues parlées

English and learning italian

Logement

we have a large modern caravan that has good facilities ,, we lived in this for 1 year when we first arrived we now live in a wooden cabin that we built

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Julia [Jul 26, 2010]:

-> Volunteer in Toscana, Italy. Help with house and with hot air balloons.

We stayed with Martin last summer. The work is physically tough at times but nothing that we were not warned about. The area is pretty but gets VERY hot in the summer - the caravan is perfectly confortable except that it also gets very hot.

The area is very isolated and Martin mixes almost exclusively with other English ex-pats so don't expect to meet many Italians. Martin's friends are all very welcoming and kind - for me, it was just that we had come to Italy to see the country, meet the people and speak the language, almost none which actually happened. When we were there, the only way we had of getting anywhere was to walk or ask Martin to drive us, which felt awkward after a while.

Also, be aware that Martin only flies very early in the morning and only at weekends (for various reasons), which means that unless the weather cooperates, you will not fly. We were there for a month and did not get to go up in the balloon, which was a great shame as it was the main thing that had drawn us. Other people did get to go up so it's a case of making sure that you're far enough up the queue (or, as we concluded, not relying on this at all and just paying for it some other time somewhere else).

This workaway was useful because it taught us what we want to look out for in future; I imagine the first few workaways are always a steep learning curve for all involved.

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